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Posted at 9:00 pm on August 13, 2017 by Joe Cunningham Netroots Nation, a liberal activist gathering that supposedly trains the next generation to be whiny safe-spacers, have decided that the most qualifying factor to be a Democratic candidate for office is race. Specifically, you should not be white. Especially if another Democrat in the race is black. In this case, it is Stacey Evans who committed the Great Sin. She is running for governor of Georgia, and her primary Democratic opponent is Stacey Abrams, who is black.

Posted at 9:30 pm on August 13, 2017 by Joe Cunningham

Posted at 12:36 am on August 14, 2017 by Caleb Howe This is one of the all time smack downs. I literally said “ohhhhh ***t” out loud when I read it. A reporter for the New York Times was an ass on Twitter (surprise!!) on Sunday.

Posted at 4:00 am on August 14, 2017 by Joe Cunningham It’s hard to fathom how quickly this went to pieces.

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Vice President MORE on Sunday condemned white supremacists and defended President Trump following criticism that the administration failed to adequately condemn specific groups after Saturday violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. “We have no tolerance for hate and violence, white supremacists or neo-Nazis or the KKK,” Pence said at a press conference in Cartagena, Colombia, according to a White House press pool report. Trump had neglected to name the groups that organized the rally that turned violent in Charlottesville the previous day.  However, Pence said Trump “

Vice President MORE on Sunday confirmed the U.S.

Hundreds of people gathered at the site of a fatal crash in Charlottesville, Va. to honor the victims one day after a white supremacist rally turned violent. Heather Heyer, 32, was killed when a man with reported alt-right ties drove his car into a crowd of anti-fascism protestors at the white nationalist rally on Saturday.

The Trump administration is applying a “peaceful pressure campaign” on North Korea, the heads of the Defense and State departments wrote in an op-ed on Sunday. Lawmakers in both parties raised concerns that President Trump's rhetoric on North Korea over the past week exacerbated an already delicate situation, and the op-ed appears to be an attempt to tamp down the heated rhetoric. “While diplomacy is our preferred means of changing North Korea’s course of action, it is backed by military options,” wrote Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and State Department Secretary published by The Wall Str